Carolina QuotesI mean, a genuinely productive society. I mean you could produce plenty of goods without much freedom, but I think the whole sort of creative life of man is ultimately impossible without a considerable measure of individual freedom, of initiative, creation, all these things which we value, and I think value properly, are impossible without a large measure of freedom.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
No citation is recorded for this quotation.
- form
- interview
- work
- The Mike Wallace Interview (May 18, 1958)
- year
- 1958
no citation recorded
Cite this record
“I mean, a genuinely productive society. I mean you could pro…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D15C4B4EC4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d15c4b4ec4
More from Aldous Huxley
In recent years, many men of science have come to realize that the scientific picture of the world is a partial one — the product of their special competence in mathematics and their special incompetence to deal systematically with aesthetic and moral values, religious experiences and intuitions of significance.
It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.
Dinted, dimpled, wimpled — his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.